Group says Mitch Daniels lifted passages in attack on historian, experts have doubts

7:13 AM,
Jul. 24, 2013

Mitch Daniels

Written by

Hayleigh Colombo
hcolombo@jconline.com

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels is refuting claims that he lifted sections of his recent public statement criticizing anti-war historian Howard Zinn from other sources without attribution.

English writing experts, a New York journalist and critics of the former Indiana governor say a statement Daniels released July 17 in the wake of controversy over an Associated Press article contains striking similarities to two sources: an article by journalist Michael Moynihan published in Reason Magazine in 2010, and a Stanford University news release put out in December.